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Ex-cop who morphed into Russia’s ‘Jack The Ripper’ found guilty of murdering and mutilating 19 sex workers – Evgeny Chuplinsky said he killed his victims ‘because they were bad for society’

In the guise of his alta ego, Russia’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde strangled his victims, used a knife to slice off their breasts, severe their heads and limbs, then steal their valuables

‘Russia’s Jack The Ripper’ was found guilty of murdering and mutilating the sex workers, he claimed had to die ‘because they were bad for society’

While his wife a respected dentist was at home, Chuplinsky would cruise the streets, pick up girls and befriend them

He would then strangle, mutilate and dismember his victims

Hiding body parts around the city, Chuplinsky sought to throw off investigators by faking a satanic motive, carving devilish depictions on the dismembered body parts

His wife Vera, a respected dentist who knew nothing of his double life, described him as a maniac and wants nothing to do with him

Sentencing is scheduled this month, state prosecutors have asked for a life term in a harsh penal colony

Evgeny Chuplinsky has been found guilty of murdering and mutilating 19 sex workers in Novosibirsk, Siberia over a time period of seven years

A notorious and sadistic serial killer nicknamed ‘Russia’s Jack The Ripper’ has been convicted in the murder of 19 sex workers in Siberia.
Evgeny Chuplinsky, 52, admitted to having sex with some of his victims shortly before killing them, and carving satanic signs on many of the dismembered corpses.
At home, he was ‘happily married’ to a glamorous and successful dentist – but lived a double life butchering sex workers who he claimed were ‘bad for society’, a jury found.
The former policeman was found guilty of murdering and mutilating 19 sex workers in Novosibirsk, Siberia over a time period of seven years.
A jury in Novosibirsk just returned a unanimous verdict to convict him of the multiple homicides.
He strangled his victims, aged 18 to 31, then used a knife to slice off the breasts of his victims, and severed their heads and limbs, while also stealing their valuables.
He hid their body parts around the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, and sought to confuse investigators by making it appear the killer had a satanic motive, carving devilish depictions on dismembered body parts.
‘He made friends with the women, asked to spend time with them, drove them away to remote places and killed them,’ said a state prosecutor.
‘Then he dismembered the bodies, throwing away the body parts – heads, arms, legs and others – leaving them along the roads or at dumps.’
Chuplinsky’s sentencing is scheduled for March. Russian state prosecutors have asked for a life term in a harsh penal colony.
All his killings were between 1998 and 2005 – yet it took Russian police until now to bring him to justice.

Chuplinsky was reportedly ‘happily married’ to Vera [photo], a dentist, who was oblivious of his double life. She has described him as a ‘maniac’

In an effort to snare the serial killer, some 5,000 local men were required to give DNA samples, 8,000 witnesses questioned and 300 forensic analyses completed.
Described as a ‘good family man’ and ‘perfect husband’, he claimed: ‘I am not Winnie the Pooh – but also very far from being a monster.’
After quitting the police, he worked as a taxi driver and later in the construction industry.
He was known to neighbours in Novosibirsk as ‘caring and kind’, and there was ‘disbelief’ when he was charged and labelled as a Russian Jack the Ripper.
His wife Vera, a respected dentist who knew nothing of his double life has refused to speak in detail about his reign of terror but admits that he was a ‘maniac’.

Portraits of some of Chuplinsky’s 19 victims. The killer befriended, these women, had sex with them before killing, dismembering and robbing them. DNA tests matched him to the killings

Killing gear: This glove allegedly was worn by Chuplinsky during the killings

The women disappeared from an area known as ‘drunken road’, a red light district, and his crimes started before he left the police, it is alleged.
He drove his victims to deserted locations, before killing and dismembering them.
In one murder re-enactment he told police: ‘I dragged her out of the car, she was fighting back.
‘I grabbed her, pushed her. I was shaking, at that moment you don’t understand what’s happening. And I strangled her right here.’

‘It was about getting information on different crimes and offences. I used their knowledge. – Chuplinsky had initially confessed to the crimes, then pleaded not guilty.

Chuplinsky had initially confessed to the crimes, then pleaded not guilty. He admitted he would pick up his victims from Novosibirsk’s ‘red light district’, but denied having sex with some of his victims or strangling and mutilating them
He claimed his genetic trace was on the dead women because he had regularly associated with prostitutes.
This was ‘nothing to be proud of’ but it ‘happened quite often’.
He claimed that as a policeman he was ‘in close touch with prostitutes who were working on my patrol beat.
‘It was about getting information on different crimes and offences. I used their knowledge.
‘With their assistance I solved crimes and detained drunk drivers.
‘Sometimes I let drivers go for a bribe, it’s a sin of course. I was protecting them from physical harassment.’
Investigators said that sophisticated DNA matching, which was not available at the time the bodies were found, linked Chuplinsky to the crimes.
His wife was quoted on her husband’s arrest, saying only: ‘You must understand that a maniac cannot change his nature. A person like this cannot suddenly become normal.’